John Palfrey
Auteur van Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
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John Palfrey is Head of School of Phillips Academy. Andover, coauthor of Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age, and author of the MIT Press Essential knowledge volume Intellectual Property Strategy.
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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Information Revolution and Global Politics) (2008) 94 exemplaren
Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Information Revolution and Global Politics) (2010) 34 exemplaren
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education (MIT Press) (2017) 20 exemplaren
Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace (Information Revolution and Global Politics) (2012) 16 exemplaren
Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (2010) 2 exemplaren
Palfrey`s Syriac Grammar 1 exemplaar
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- Harvard University
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- John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives" (Basic Books, 2008) and "Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering" (MIT Press, 2008). His research and teaching is focused on Internet law, intellectual property, and international law. He practiced intellectual property and corporate law at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. He is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Outside of Harvard Law School, he is a Venture Executive at Highland Capital Partners and serves on the board of several technology companies and non-profits. John served as a special assistant at the US EPA during the Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School.
The first generation of “Digital Natives” – children who were born into and raised in the digital world – are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who are these Digital Natives?
Born Digital is an initiative of the Digital Natives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen. The aim of the Digital Natives project is to understand and support young people as they grow up in a digital age.
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Great overview of the library's present and future. I do think the author idealizes librarians too much, though. I also wish some more radical ideas were presented.
I read for the North Carolina Library Conference.
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John Palfrey, the former head of the Harvard Law School Library and the founding chairman of the Digital Public Library of America, believes that libraries are being left behind in the Stone Age. This is due in part by the technology that is being developed by the private sector and this technology is greatly influencing how people interact, create, and receive information. In his book, Biblio Tech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google, Palfrey argues for the transformation of libraries, one that remakes the technology, goals, and training of libraries to meet the demands of the information age in which we live.
For Palfrey, libraries are too often viewed as institutions where information is used not made and shared. Simply put, libraries are seen as centers of distribution not centers of production. The fear is that private companies will continue their monopoly on the information age and that the main conduits of information will fall into the hands of the few and privileged. These private companies, such as Amazon and Google (to name a few) are informing the digital information practices of library users and are outpacing the digital shift in libraries.
Because private companies have become the “key intermediary” in how patrons of libraries utilize digital media and obtain knowledge, Palfrey proposes that libraries must update their services to meet the demands of our increasingly digital world. He argues that libraries need to be come interactive environments (through the developments of creative ventures like maker spaces), where people could make instead of simply consume culture. Many libraries have started to become institutions of digital and creative innovation providing robotic classes, digital labs, and more. But, many are unable to afford such changes and this makes me wonder if change on a grand scale is possible.
Palfrey argues that libraries must be networks, and should be viewed as platforms, which are open to collaboration (especially with technologists, futurists, programmers, as well as other informational institutions). I found this be a provocative idea because the potential for access and services for patrons through interconnected institutions would be immense. Many libraries are underfunded and could use such partnerships to serve their patrons.
What I found most intriguing within the book was Palfrey’s argument for digitization. One benefit of a shared network is that libraries can distribute the workload of digitization while learning from others. The only way to truly preserve items, especially in a time of severe budget cuts is to advocate for digitization partnerships. Digitization and preservation of collections is a tremendous task that no single institution will be able to effectively manage in the future. I believe Palfrey’s ideas are not only needed but should be acted upon if we are going to attempt to face the challenges of 21st century preservation.
Palfrey’s call for transformation and innovation within libraries to meet the demands of our digital age is timely. It may be a little idealistic but it is just the sort of vision libraries need.… (meer)